he assault upon Mr.
Smith, but were endeavoring to secure his dismissal from the
position of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Sutton Junction. He
wanted to know, and every temperance man in Canada wanted to
know, if the Canadian Pacific Railway were going to dismiss an
officer of their Company at the behest of illegal liquor sellers
of a Scott Act county? He, therefore, moved: 'That we have heard
with pleasure through the press, that Mr. Tait, Assistant General
Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has stated to the press
that the Company was doing everything in its power to discover
the guilty parties in the attempted murder of their agent at
Sutton Junction, Mr. W. W. Smith. That recent reports have come
from Brome County to the effect that officials of the Company are
in league with the liquor men, and are assisting them to prevent,
if possible, further annoyance by bringing pressure upon their
agent, and that the Company has made no practical effort to bring
the guilty parties in the recent assault case to justice. That we
hereby instruct our secretary, Mr. Carson, to ascertain from the
officials of the Company if such reports are true, and make a
full report for the next meeting of this Alliance.' The
resolution was adopted."

Somewhat later the following remarks appeared in the editorial
department of the _Witness_:

"The liquor men who tried to murder Mr. Smith, the President of
the Brome County Alliance, by stunning him with a skull-cracker,
and then leaving him on the track, failed in that cowardly and
brutal attempt, but have escaped punishment at the hands of the
authorities, who seem to be, as usual, perfectly helpless in the
matter. These same liquor men, who in Brome County are all
outlaws, have the impudence to use all sorts of influence with
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to get them to dismiss Mr.
Smith, who is their agent at Sutton Junction. This is a fine
state of things, and the county, which is a prohibition county,
is watching to see what the Company will do. Here is a chance for
capital to tyrannize at the behest of organized iniquity and
lawlessness."

It often happens that people get very much aroused and alarmed when
there is no real foundation for their fears, but not so in this case.
The following from the _Witness_ of